When Jason Bates sees a girl swimming alone with a whale in the middle of the ocean, no body believes him. His mother thinks he is lying. His brother believes he is going crazy. The rest of the kids on the underwater city of Orca ridicule him. Jason's search for the girl leads him to a secluded island in the Barrier Reef - and to Neri, a strange, wild creature with extraordinary physical abilities and a telepathic connection with the great humpback whale she calls Charley. But the discovery of Neri and Charley by the outside world leads to